Manning v. North

JOHN T. BOYD, Chief Justice.

This appeal is engendered by the trial court’s dismissal of the suit appellants Joyce and Dan Manning filed against ap-pellee Ronald J. North, M.D. In asserting their challenge, appellants present three issues for our decision. Those three issues are: 1) if the “conscious indifference” standard of Rule of Civil Procedure 165a(3) applies, did the district court abuse its discretion in dismissing the case and in refusing to reinstate when the Mannings showed more than “some excuse” in failing to promptly proceed, 2) if the “due diligence” standard applies, by…